In message , at 09:07:24 on Thu, 15 Apr
2021, remarked:
On 15 Apr 2021 08:32:31 GMT
Marland wrote:
Charles Ellson wrote:
Looking at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9k7XvFH3pE there
isn't a lot of DC track out in the open away from the fenced off
"depot" and there is about 200y of shielding at the far end of the DC
track (about 5:12) which is rather more than usually seen at
transition points.


We will have to disagree about what “isn’t a lot is “ .

Quoting from this website.

http://www.old-dalby.com/operation.htm

“This line is now electrified with 750v DC conductor rails for
approximately 3 miles and the SSL trains are based in the compound during
the daily testing. The yard sidings at the former control centre have also
been equipped. Power for the DC line is routed from the sub-station at
Asfordby. All other functions are now conducted from the new complex at
Asfordby, and the SSL trains travel to and from Asfordby each day, hauled
by a diesel locomotive.�

Given we have Old Dalby in the UK why do so many new trains do their testing
in the Czech Republic these days? Perhaps there's an argument for one track
to be returned to being a regular railway linking Melton Mowbray and
Nottingham?

The stretch from the north end of the Old Dalby line, to Central
Nottingham, has been obliterated by various development.
--
Roland Perry